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Get a Grip Podcast — 165 episodes

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1

How I Survived Growing Up With an Addicted Bipolar Mother | Ep 169

2

Addiction Led Me to Rob a Correctional Officer’s House — I Got 18 Years | Ep 161

3

From 40 Foster Homes to 100 OD’s & F3ntanyl Addiction | Ep 160

4

I Blacked Out on Heroin… It Cost Me 8 Years in Prison | Ep 159

5

From Small Town to H3roin & M3th — Then 3 Weeks Without Sleep | Ep 159

6

From Miami Coke to Ohio Heroin — How He Finally Got Clean | Ep 158

7

How I Woke Up in a Human Trafficking Nightmare & M3th Addiction | Ep 157

8

I Lost Everything to Fentanyl — My Story of Addiction & Homelessness | Ep 156

9

I Got Pregnant at 13… Then Ended Up on M3th & in Jail | Ep 155

10

How My Mother’s Overdose Led Me to Fentanyl Addiction | Ep 154

11

I Shot Heroin With My Dying Dad & Extracted My Own Teeth… 20 Years of IV Heroin Addiction | Ep 153

12

Finding Heroin in Jersey Had Me Nodding in My Mom’s Mashed Potatoes | Ep 152

13

From Fentanyl to 7-OH… How a Legal Opioid Destroyed My Life | Ep 151

14

I Was Forced to Shoot Heroin at 16… It Changed My Life Forever | Ep 150

15

How Heroin Addiction Led Me to 10 Years in West Virginia Prison | Ep 148

16

How I Built an OxyContin Empire at 19… Inside Florida’s Pill Mill Era | Ep 147

17

I Was Pregnant at 18 and Addicted to Meth & Opiates… This Is How I Survived | Ep 146

18

I Was a Full-Blown Addict at 12… Then Got Sentenced to 16 Years in Prison | Ep 145

19

I Started Dealing Heroin in High School… and Almost Lost Everything Ep | 144

20

The Reality of Meth & Fentanyl Addiction on the Streets of Hilltop, Ohio | Ep 143

21

How I Lost a Child During Crack & Heroin Addiction | Ep 142

22

How I Went From Heroin Addiction at 14 to 23 Years in Prison… Now 22 Years Sober | Ep 141

23

What Fentanyl & Xylazine Addiction Looks Like in the Streets of Columbus, Ohio | Ep 141

24

From Fake IDs to Fentanyl: How My Addiction Took Everything | Ep 140

25

From My Dad’s Drug Mule at 5 to Facing 80 Years In Prison | A Life Built on Trauma | Ep 139

26

How My Heroin Addiction & Losing My Mom to an Overdose Inspired This Podcast | Ep 138

27

I Shot Heroin in Medical School and Still Became a Doctor | Ep 137

28

How She Graduated High School on Heroin & Survived 30+ Overdoses | Ep 136

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How I Survived Crack & Fentanyl Addiction and Two Teen Pregnancies | Ep 135

30

What It’s Like Giving Birth in Prison as a Heroin Addict | Ep 134

31

What Happened When I Found My Dad Overdosed After 5 Days on Crack & Heroin | Ep 133

32

How Heroin & Coke Addiction Shaped My Music Career While Touring with Stone Sour, Ministry & Prong | Ep 132

33

How I Lost 20 Years to a Cr4ck Fueled Rage Addiction In The 80's | 131

34

How I Became an Accessory to Murd3r After a Girl Died at the Trap I Was Selling M3th Out Of | Ep 130

35

I Relapsed 6 Times on Oxy, H3roin & F3ntanyl… Here’s What Finally Worked | Ep 129

36

My Grandpa Got Me Pregnant: How it Led to Oxy, H3roin, & M3th Addiction & Trafficking in a Dog Cage | Ep 128

37

My Whole Family Was Addicted to H3roin — Losing My Sister Changed Everything. | Ep 127

38

How I Survived Oxy & H3roin Addiction, an 18-Day Coma, and Smuggling Liquor to Palestine | Ep 126

39

How a M3th & Cr4ck Addiction Had Me Facing 11 Years in Prison | Ep 125

40

My Life Full Circle: Growing Up in Beverly Hills, Cr4ck Addiction, Jail in Mexico & Losing My Leg | Ep 124

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Where Smoking Cr4ck & Shooting H3roin With My Parents Led Me Before I Graduated HS | Ep 123

42

I Was Almost Trafficked by Suge Knight as a Las Vegas Stripp3r—But My C0caine Addiction Took Over | Ep 122

43

How I Was Facing 40 Years to Life After Trapping Out of Airbnbs & Meth Addiction | Ep 121

44

How I Survived Human Trafficking By 17, Getting Kidnapped and Cr4ck Addiction For 20 Years | Ep 120

45

My Parents Were 17 Years Old, Addicted to Opiates and Cr4ck — This Is How It Shaped My Childhood | Ep 119

46

Born With Cystic Fibrosis, Addicted to F3ntanyl, & Trapped in Human Trafficking | Ep 118

47

How I Went From Ballet Lessons to Stripping and M3th Addiction | Ep 117

48

Foster Care To The Doorman Of A Trap House….How 20 Years Of H3roin Addiction Shaped My Life | Ep 116

49

How My Brothers Death Led To A Crippling M3th & Cr4ck Addiction With A Registered S3x Offender | Ep 115

50

Starting a Nonprofit That Got Me Locked Up: How I Went to Prison After Upsetting the VA of America | Ep 114

51

My Life Full Circle: Growing Up in Beverly Hills, Cr4ck Addiction, Jail in Mexico & Losing My Leg | Ep 124

52

Sobriety After Opioid Addiction & Losing Both Parents by 33... | Ep 113

53

How I became the Gordon Ramsey of Cooking Cr4ck | Ep 112

54

How I Blacked Out on X4nax and Destroyed My Life in One Night | Ep 111

55

The Day I Sn0rted Cremains Thinking It Was Powdered H3roin | Ep 109

56

My Truth: Going Into Labor in a Trap House & My Babies Being Born Addicted | 109

57

Narcaned, Shot, Stabbed… How This F3nt4nyl Addict Finally Got Sober | Ep 107

58

How I Got Caught Two Felonies Over an Almond Used as a Cr4ck Rock | Ep 106

59

How I Went From Prison to Parole Officer | Ep 105

60

How I Accidentally Got Addicted to F3tty and Lost Two Boyfriends Before I Hit 22 | Ep 104

61

The FBI on Her Lawn, Leukemia, and Relapse: A Survivor’s Raw Story of Alcoholism in the 80's & 90's | Ep 103

62

How I Got Pregnant With Twins While I Was Cooking M3th | Ep 102

63

How I Got Addicted to F3nt4nyl At 30 Years Old | Ep 101

64

My Truth: Exploiting Myself to Survive Addiction While Another Man Profited | Ep 100

65

How 4 DUIs and a Felony Forced Me to Change My Life | Ep 97

66

Addiction Unfiltered: Xanax DUIs, Pill Runs, and a Shot at Redemption Ep | 96

67

My Battle with H3r0in, F3ntanyl & Methadone -- Trying to Stay Clean Ep | 95

68

I Drank & Used Everyday For 26 Years, Now I’m 15 Years Sober Ep | 94

69

What This Former Addict Told Middle Schoolers Will Shock You | Ep 93

70

I Almost Died 3 Times During My 15-Year M3th & H3ro!n Addiction | Ep 92

71

I Smoked Cr4ck Until My Hands Bled — Now I Preach | Ep 91

72

From Pregnant Teen to Addicted Stripper: Her Recovery Story | Ep 90

73

Heroin Withdrawal Triggered My Labor — And My Baby Was Born in Withdrawal | Ep 89

74

How I Got Addicted to F3nt4nyl At 30 Years Old | Ep 100

75

He was Locked Up Where I was a C.O - Now We Talk Prison Addiction & Surviving F3ntanyl | Ep 88

76

How I Hustled Scrap Metal, Got Robbed in a K-Hole, and Tried To Escape From Jail | Ep 87

77

Cr4ck Addiction, Rubbing Alcohol, and Handing Mom Her Last Beer While She Fought Cirrhosis | Ep 86

78

I Was Raised by a Cr4ck Addict After My Dad Disappeared | Ep 85

79

My Dad Taught Me How to Rip and Run in the Streets of Detroit | Ep 84

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How I Became an IV Drug User By 17 Years Old | Ep 83

81

I Lost an Arm and Became a Heroin Addict | Ep 82

82

I Graduated from Ohio's #1 Party School with a Degree… and a Drug & Alcohol Problem | Ep 81

83

She Was Smoking Cr4ck & F3tty While Working as a Drug Counselor At A Recovery Center | Ep 80

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How the Chains of Xanax Addiction Changed My Life Forever | Ep 80

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Surviving Addiction, Prison & Poverty in Zanesville, Ohio | Ep 79

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I Turned To Crack After My Son Got Killed By a Drunk Driver | Ep 78

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I Was Addicted to Heroin Before I Graduated High School | Ep 77

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How I Survived Over 20 Years Of IV Drug Use And 4 Prison Stays | Ep 76

89

From 13-Year-Old Trailer Park Dealer to Using Every Drug Imaginable to How I Recovered | Ep 75

90

I Got Arrested In Front Of My Whole Town With 50 Bags Of Hero!n and Became Walmarts Most Wanted | Ep 74

91

My Brutal Truth Of Opiate Addiction And How Hard It Really Is To Get Clean | Ep 73

92

How He Went From Pawning, Forging Checks, to Scamming John Deere For 50k to Fuel His Oxy Addiction | Ep 72

93

He Was Exposed to Drugs by 6, Then Survived Addiction, Crime, and Prison | Ep 71

94

From the Sticks to Hittin' Licks — How He Lost Everything to Oxy And H | Ep 70

95

I Was Born From Sexual Assault and This is the Toll it Took on my Life | Ep 70

96

My Wife was Murdered Dexter Kill Room Style and This is How I Stayed Sober | Ep 69

97

He Started Using OC-80's With The Host of our Show at 15 Years Old | Ep 69

98

From Small-Town Ohio to Strung Out In Brooklyn: My Decent Into Addiction | Ep 68

99

The Devil in Detox: How Rock Bottom Doesn’t Care Where You Come From | Ep 67

100

How Cocaine, Adderall, And Meth Led Me To Heart Failure, Relying On Batteries To Stay Alive | Ep 66

101

Fentanyl, Felonies, and a Second Chance — The Dark Side of Addiction | Ep 65

102

I Interviewed The Judge That Sent Me To Jail - Then Helped Me Get A Job There | Ep 64

103

Master Manipulator Transported Drugs Around Prison | Episode 63

104

Using Heroin At 15 Years Old Led Me To Prostitution, Trauma, a Life I Couldn't Escape | Episode 63

105

I Was A Fetty Fiend Doing 12 Pills A Day | Episode 62

106

Fraud, Feds, and Federal Time: The Real Story of a Miami Cuban Con Artist | Episode 61

107

From 8th Grade Dropout to 2 Prison Numbers: How He Survived Addiction With 4 Kids On The Streets | Episode 60

108

Manic Highs & Vegas Nights: My Bipolar Journey Through Addiction | Episode 59

109

Her Baby Daddy Watched Her OD on FaceTime | Episode 58

110

From CEO, to Divorced Peruvian Cocaine Smuggler, to 37 Years Sober | Episode 57

111

How She Survived A Decade Of Human Trafficking | Episode 37

112

Growing Up With A Sexual Predator For A Brother And How I Became An Alcoholic By 16 Years Old | Episode 56

113

Supporting My Family While Hooked on Opiates In Cleveland Ohio | Episode 55

114

How I Went From Breaking The Law to Enforcing It | Episode 54

115

MMA Fighter Kicks Heroin and Ends up on A&E's 60 Days In | Episode 53

116

The Truth About MAT: My Journey Out of Addiction | Episode 52

117

From Gucci to Guilty: He Grabbed the Bag, Then Got Bagged | Episode 50

118

How After a Brutal Heroin Addiction I Got Sober and Lost My Leg | Episode 49

119

I Survived 17 Years On The Streets In Active Addiction As A Call Girl | Episode 48

120

Ex-Delta Employee Tells All About Flights to Florida To Get Pills | Episode 47

121

Addiction Led Her to the Wrong Door — Or the Right One? | Episode 46

122

I OD'd and Lost Most of My Memories | Episode 45

123

How One Split Second Decision Changed a Man's Life Forever | Episode 44

124

The Brutal Life of Living Addiction With My Mother | Episode 43

125

From Mafia Roots to Rock Bottom | Episode 42

126

She OD'd 11 Times In 3 Days! | Episode 41

127

How One Alcoholic Mother Sought Treatment With Her Addict Daughter | Episode 40

128

Her Last Chance: Girlfriend Takes Control After Couple OD's While Driving | Episode 38

129

D.A.R.E Didn't Work For Me So Now I speak In School's and Share My Story Addiction | Episode 39

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From Broken Homes and Addiction to Prison Cells - A Man Searching for a Place to Belong | Episode 36

131

A Rebel Raised By a Police Dective Turns Into a Prson Gang Boss | Episode 35

132

The Merciless Truth Behind Human Trafficking | Episode 34

133

Meth Made Son of God Hit by Truck | Episode 33

134

Surviving Hell: A Fentanyl Addict Reveals his Brutal Life Style and How He Made it Out Alive | Episode 32

135

An Ex-Correction Officer Tells the Brutal Truth behind Death Row | Episode 31

136

Pill Mills and Profits: The Man Behind the Midwest Opioid Crisis | Episode 30

137

Trap House in the Suburbs Raided After Fatal Overdose Landing his Grandmother In Cuffs | Episode 29

138

Surviving Trauma and 17 Days Without Sleep Turns Into Psychosis | Episode 28

139

First Day of Freedom A Dangerous Career Criminal and Addict on his Last Chance at Life | Episode 27

140

A Life Shaped by the 80's Crack Epidemic: How a Cop Gave Me a Second Chance | Episode 26

141

Public Defender to Judge and the Human Experience of Prison Sentencing | Episode 25

142

Mother, Son and the Needle : How Using Heroin With my Mother Ended In Tragedy | Episode 24

143

A Prison Guard Fell in Love With me While we Ran a Drug Ring | Episode 23

144

I Survived 20 Years as an Opioid Addict and Found Sobriety When I Met My Wife Flying a Sign Homeless | Episode 22

145

How I was Groomed To Be a Drug Dealer at 12 Years Old | Episode 21

146

Man's $200K College Bookstore Scam Exposed: Fake Prescriptions & OxyContin Addiction | Episode 20

147

Locked in Maximum Security Prison for 6 Years: The Price of Being a Meth King Pin | Episode 19

148

Waiting 7 Days to Die | Episode 18

149

Surviving Gunshots, Gang Life, and Prison: A Former Drug Dealer’s Journey to Recovery | Episode 17

150

Stealing from the System: How Burglarizing a CO’s Home Sent Me to Prison for 17 Years | Episode 16

151

Locked Up At 18: The Dark Truth Behind Ohio Prison Gangs | Episode 15

152

Addicts Get Roasted: Comedian Talks Bombing, Early Days with Matt Rife | Episode 14

153

Party Girl Shares Trauma and Reveals All | Episode 13

154

Alcoholic Attorney Tells Tales of Defending Criminals While Getting DUI's | Episode 12

155

He Scammed a Town In Alabama out of Two Million Dollars | Episode 11

156

From Cocaine to Clarity My Journey Through Hollywood’s Dark Side | Episode 10

157

Growing up in the Crack Epidemic and How He Landed 10 Years Straight In Prison | Episode 9

158

Smuggled Cocaine, Abused Meth, and Now I Help Others Heal | Episode 8

159

How a Former Convict Did 5 Years in Prison by Trying to End it All | Episode 7

160

How I Defrauded Investors of Millions at 18 Years Old | Episode 6

161

The Brutal Lifestyle of a Meth Addict and His Unique Crimes | Episode 5

162

The Juice Isn't Loose, Mass Murder, and Getting shot at | Episode 4

163

Grand Theft Auto and Fishing For Skunks In Prison | Episode 3

164

Haldol and The Nursing Home and Mental Health Challenges in Sobriety | Episode 2

165

Rapping with Chet Hanks and Failed Robberies | Episode 1